Author: Scott Beggs

Can you hear it? Out there in the distance, on a cold crag of rock with the wind whipping at its monstrous back is a…

https://medium.com/media/78d6a00c55a740cf61c1710497b15f41/href Why Watch? Staring straight into the camera, a pretty young woman tells us she’s 21 years old, and she’s a monster. Throughout the rest…

One plus one equals three. It’s a fascinating idea in its simplicity and in its wrongness, but it’s the key to Ken Burns’s work. According…

On December 7, 1941, the naval base at Pearl Harbor was attacked by 353 Japanese planes. It was a day that lives in infamy, but…

Why Watch? It’s The Raid. Made with claymation cats. By Lee Hardcastle. Do you need an embossed invitation? What will it cost? Only 3 minutes. Skip Work.…

What is Cannes in 60 Seconds? If you say it with a pompous accent, it’s a hilarious pun on a classic Nic Cage/Angelina Jolie film…

William Lustig’s original 1980 Maniac was of the highest, grainy midnight movie caliber. Perhaps it’s not sacred ground, but it’s a grisly example of an…

Simon has already weighed in on Moonrise Kingdom ‐ his first Cannes film of 2012 ‐ but we check in with him to see what…

https://medium.com/media/8cf3dc4fa5e4cd712e5a5fb09c7a74b4/href Why Watch? What does nine months of animation work look like? What does it look like when it focuses on an elderly man raging…